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Atheism and forced labor (view source)
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[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|thumbnail|250|right|The [[atheism|atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] sent millions of peasants to slave labor camps.<ref>http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm</ref>]]
[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|thumbnail|250|right|The [[atheism|atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] sent millions of peasants to slave labor camps.<ref>http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm</ref>]]
[[Karl Marx]] established [[atheism]] as a key part of communism. He famously said, "Religion ... is the opium of the masses."<ref>Marx, K. [http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31765.html Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right] (Classic Quotations) (Standard translation from the original German).</ref> He believed it was part of the "superstructure," a false culture built to maintain the status quo. Thus he denigrated Christianity as a fictional religion. Instead, Marx was an avowed atheist, as he wrote, "Communism begins from the outset with [[atheism]]; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction."<ref>Marx, Karl, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm Private Property and Communism], 1944.</ref>
[[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on ''in practice'' and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."<ref>Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, ''Proletary'', No. 45, May 13 (26), 1909, translated by Andrew Rothstein and Bernard Issacs, quote from [http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm].</ref>
In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] communist leader Chou En-lai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref>
== Atheistic communism and slavery ==
The Museum of [[Communism]] website declares:
The Museum of [[Communism]] website declares:
{{cquote|Slave labor camps, also known as "concentration camps," "forced labor camps," and "re-education camps," have played a vital role in Communist systems from the very beginning. [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s secret police, the Cheka, began to set up concentration camps in 1918; the first official admission appears to have been made by [[Leon Trotsky]], who threatened rebellious Czech forces with confinement in concentration camps if they refused to join the Red Army...
{{cquote|Slave labor camps, also known as "concentration camps," "forced labor camps," and "re-education camps," have played a vital role in Communist systems from the very beginning. [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s secret police, the Cheka, began to set up concentration camps in 1918; the first official admission appears to have been made by [[Leon Trotsky]], who threatened rebellious Czech forces with confinement in concentration camps if they refused to join the Red Army...